Chinese studios HAD Architects and EPOS paired wood panelling with perforated metal inside this tiny Chengdu coffee shop, which also features a combined bookshelf and staircase. More about Chengdu coffee shop features a staircase that extends out of a bookcase
Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Freja Bao has devised a masterplan for a new Chinese cultural capital that could help to change the country's political image. More about Bartlett student Freja Bao designs pilgrimage destination "to rebrand China"
The folded steel facade and roof structure of this terminal for cruise liners in the Chinese city of Qingdao is informed by the sails of boats that set out from nearby harbours. More about Qingdao Cruise Terminal's angular facade references boats' sails
Italian architect Stefano Boeri has unveiled plans for a city near China's Liuzhou, featuring towers completely covered in trees and plants to combat air pollution. More about Stefano Boeri designs "vertical forest" city to eat up China's smog
Eight-metre high sculptures skim the ceiling of the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, which is currently hosting artist Kaws' first retrospective in Asia and features exhibition design by Aranda\Lasch. More about Aranda\Lasch creates exhibition design for Kaws retrospective in Shanghai
Tessellating diamonds create an intricate grid of solid and void across the facade of this shopping centre that Dutch firm UNStudio has completed in Shanghai. More about UNStudio completes Shanghai shopping centre covered in diamond shapes
A tilted and fractured black box that emerges from a public square in the Chinese city of Harbin contains display areas dedicated to telling the story of war crimes committed during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. More about Sloping black volumes penetrate public square at Harbin's Exhibition Hall of Crime Evidences
Images have emerged of a new arts and culture centre by Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio, which forms part of a new financial quarter the two firms are building on Shanghai's waterfront. More about Foster and Heatherwick complete Shanghai theatre with curtain-like facade
Beijing practice Arch Studio has renovated a traditional courtyard house in the Chinese capital, adding grey-brick paving that flows from the floor of the outdoor space to form internal walls and roofs. More about Undulating paving connects inside and outside spaces at Twisting Courtyard house
Ming Gu Design has grafted a glazed meditation area onto this historic home in Nanjing, China, which projects out to overhang a central courtyard. More about Glazed meditation room overlooks traditional courtyard from Nanjing home
These new photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li reveal the "pixelated" forms of the Guardian Arts Center by Büro Ole Scheeren as it nears completion in Beijing. More about Photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li provide first look at Ole Scheeren's Guardian Arts Center in Beijing
This museum near the Chinese city of Ürümqi features curved and textured walls and roofs, incorporating skylights and wonky windows that offer views of the nearby mountains. More about Museum in China designed to look like a "stone rolled down from the mountain"
The latest video in our Dezeen x MINI Living Initiative series investigates a design for a hydroponic vertical farm nestled among the skyscrapers of Shanghai. More about Vertical farm designed to produce food amidst Shanghai's skyscrapers
Chinese president Xi Jinping has revealed plans for the world's largest-sprawling infrastructure project – the Belt and Road – which aims to develop trade links between China, Central Asia, Europe and Africa. More about China proposes modern-day Silk Road with transcontinental infrastructure project
Chinese studio Archi-Union based the tiered form of this cable car station on an abstracted geometric model of the mountains surrounding its site on the shores of Qiandao Lake. More about Archi-Union's Qiandao cable car station features stacked forms that lean out towards a lake
Daan Roosegaarde has unveiled the next concept in his Smog Free Project – a bicycle that would inhale polluted air, clean it and release it around the cyclist. More about Daan Roosegaarde's Smog Free Bike would generate clean air as you pedal
Vector Architects has renovated a house perched on a rocky peninsula in China's Fujian Province, adding a vaulted concrete roof that encloses a new living area with views towards the sea from either end. More about Vector Architects adds barrel-vaulted roof to refurbished house in Chinese port
New images by photographer Edmon Leong offer a first look at the nearly completed glass volumes of MAD's Chaoyang Park Plaza – a commercial and residential complex based on rock formations in Beijing. More about MAD's mountain-shaped tower complex nears completion in Beijing
Beijing-based Arch Studio has completed a Buddhist shrine near the city of Tangshan, featuring subterranean concrete spaces that open up to views of a nearby river and planted courtyards. More about Arch Studio carves concrete Buddhist shrine into a grassy mound in Hebei
Atelier XÜK has added a corrugated-metal attic room to this Spanish colonial-style house, which was designed in the 1920s by a Hungarian architect for a plot in Shanghai's French quarter. More about Atelier XÜK adds wedge-shaped roof extension to Spanish-style villa in Shanghai